For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
SALLUSTIt is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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